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Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years

Title
Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years / Alton Logan, with Berl Falbaum.
Author
Logan, Alton
Publication
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]

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Additional Authors
Falbaum, Berl, 1938-
Description
xli, 181 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Justice Failed is the story of Alton Logan, an African American man who served twenty-six years in prison for a murder he did not commit. In 1983, Logan was falsely convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Cook County corrections officer, Lloyd M. Wickliffe, at a Chicago-area McDonald?s, and sentenced to life in prison. While serving time for unrelated charges, Andrew Wilson?the true murderer?admitted his guilt to his own lawyers, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz. However, bound by the legal code of ethics known as the absolutism of client-attorney privilege, Coventry and Kunz could not take action. Instead, they signed an affidavit proclaiming Logan?s innocence and locked the document in a hidden strong box. It wasn?t until after Wilson?s death in 2007 that his lawyers were able to come forward with the evidence that would eventually set Alton Logan free after twenty-six years in prison" -- publisher's description.
Subject
  • Logan, Alton > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Trials (Murder) > United States
  • False imprisonment > United States > Personal narratives
  • Trials (False imprisonment) > United States
  • African American prisoners > United States > Biography
  • Legal ethics > United States
  • Lawyers > Malpractice > United States
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Background -- Arrest -- Creating the affidavit -- First trial, 1983 -- Appeal -- Second trial, 1994 -- Prison life -- More appeals and post-conviction efforts -- Affidavit discovered -- April 18, 2008 hearing -- Andrew Wilson's affidavit -- Exoneration, innocence certificate, civil suit -- Proposed changes in ethics code -- Readjustment -- Addendum.
Call Number
Sc D 17-2557
ISBN
  • 9781619029927
  • 1619029928
LCCN
2017024767
OCLC
972385446
Author
Logan, Alton, author.
Title
Justice failed : how "legal ethics" kept me in prison for 26 years / Alton Logan, with Berl Falbaum.
Publisher
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Subject
Black author.
Added Author
Falbaum, Berl, 1938- author.
Research Call Number
Sc D 17-2557
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